Warning - Fake email from Lloyds TSB

Princ_ess

Hi all,

I just wanted to warn people that I have just received an email saying that my Lloyds TSB account is locked due to unsuccessful attempts of logging in online. Now I have NEVER banked with Lloyds. There is an attachment with the email but I haven't opened it because I know the email must be fake.

I just wanted to warn people because if it had been from the bank I do have an account with then I would have though it looked pretty genuine and may have opened the attachment.

peter_the_piper

Thanks for the warning, I get at least 5 of these a day from all the banks. Never hurts to remind people.

westendguy

I have been getting a spate of these too recently, but I did find out it is possible in Windows Mail to have them deleted before they even reach your inbox/junk folder.

To do this just highlight the message and select message from the top workbar. Then select create rule from message and tick the appropriate boxes. E.g Section 1 Where the message body contains specific words (I find this one generally works best) Section 2 tick delete. Then finally in Section 3 click on the link and select specific words from the text such as halifax/lloyds etc (as long as you dont actualy bank with them!) click add and then OK.

In hotmail live you can block the senders whole domain. Just select the options drop down menu in the top right corner near your name, then more options, then safe and blocked senders followed by blocked senders. If you just then enter the @xxxxxx.xxx it will block the whole domain.

Not sure if this can also be done with other providers such as yahoo.

johnnyboyrebel

These are just a part of internet/email life. Just ignore them, we all get hundreds.

If it was official, your bank would not send you an email about it. If there was a problem they would ring you.

ikati5

If you are really bothered this is Lloyds Tsb's official email address for recieving such emails so they can deal with them. emailscams@lloydstsb.co.uk, just forward the offending email direct to them.

ellay864

I get them all the time from banks and building societies relating to accounts or credit cards. Some are from banks I do have accounts/cards with, some I've never dealt with. I've also started getting mail from Paypal saying the account I used has changed to link to a different e-mail account (it even told me the new e-mail address!). All of them put links in that you have to click on and fill in details - no real bank does that and if you're ever unsure just log on to your bank BY YOUR USUAL ROUTE, NOT THROUGH THE LINK and you can sort it in the rare case there's actually a genuine problem.
Some are scarily sneaky and replicate the site livery and in many cases their e-mail address seems genuine (as opposed to those that are some weird name on a yahoo account). I can understand why elderly people could get taken in - luckily my some is so PC illiterate she'd never use any online banking but I guess sadly there must be people who do still fall for these

johnnyboyrebel

ellay864 wrote: »

I get them all the time from banks and building societies relating to accounts or credit cards. Some are from banks I do have accounts/cards with, some I've never dealt with. I've also started getting mail from Paypal saying the account I used has changed to link to a different e-mail account (it even told me the new e-mail address!). All of them put links in that you have to click on and fill in details - no real bank does that and if you're ever unsure just log on to your bank BY YOUR USUAL ROUTE, NOT THROUGH THE LINK and you can sort it in the rare case there's actually a genuine problem.
Some are scarily sneaky and replicate the site livery and in many cases their e-mail address seems genuine (as opposed to those that are some weird name on a yahoo account). I can understand why elderly people could get taken in - luckily my some is so PC illiterate she'd never use any online banking but I guess sadly there must be people who do still fall for these

Or if people insist on actually reading them, just hover over the links they give. The link will be lloyds.com but the actual path will be something completely different.

oldagetraveller

I recently received one from LolydsTSB! It was really very difficult to spot whether it was a fake or not!